Komet City & Augustin von Arx – Les Framboises
Genre: Alternative Rock
Never get blase about what modern music can offer you! Chances are that you have to look harder. And then, once you have found something that seems to meet your criteria, you have to take one extra step forward and try to fall in love with the music that’s come your way. This is the manner in which you began loving all of the records in your collection.
It’s not uncommon for music fans to go searching for new music. Usually, however, they seek it in the most unusual places. And, yes, this is likely to force some new discoveries. Often times though, the most unexpected styles and the most unusual performers come from where you least expect that they would. At the moment, one of the most alternative-friendly places for music in Switzerland, the country that Orson Welles once claimed was responsible solely for the cuckoo clock.
Komet City & Augustin von Arx’s Les Framboises is a perfect example of the otherworldliness of youthful Swiss music at the moment. Part Nino Ferrer, part Syd Barrett, the song in question is a psychedelic cruise around a place that is strategically avoided by most travelers on a budget. It’s left the natives to their own devices, it seems. And their ideas about what pop music could be are nothing short of hallucinatory.
Unicorn – Circus
Similar artists: Dresden Dolls, Silverchair, PJ Harvey, Howling Bells, Veruca Salt, Clouds, Powderfinger
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Young artists are both completely free and tremendously bound. On the one hand, there is no greater power of expression than what artists, in the Westernised world, at least, hold. For the great poets, there is nothing that cannot be said, shown, or toward which they can allude. Their talent and their perceived eccentricity makes everyone willing to the directness of their message and to look upon their work as a mirror held to society.
But, artists are bound to the whims and fancies of the public. It’s them that have the power to set an artist free. Only they can provide the attention that poets, painters, or songwriters need in order to carry on doing their work. It’s only the public that can feed the ego of an artist wishing to be heard by the world. And only the public can soothe the thirst for appreciation of these creative minds.
Unicorn’s Circus is a song whose sound is inspired by some of the pioneering and most expressive rock bands of the 1990s. It’s a daring tune filled to the brim with the imagery that haunts the songwriter’s imagination. However., it is also a tune that asks for understanding. It’s a spell that cannot work unless you believe that it is true. It’s a song that sets the author free, as long as you choose to release them.
